In article , dennis@home
wrote:
On 13/01/2019 09:42, charles wrote:
In article , Steve Walker
wrote:
On 12/01/2019 07:44, Brian Gaff wrote:
Bit of a cheesey reply then. I hated those forms when you started a
job. There was an extremely high temptation to misinterpret things.

Qualifications always made me laugh as I have no formal ones at all,
and they often simply could not understand why I could do the job
better than their chinless graduate with a million 'ologies' to
their name. I tended to put common sense A in the University of
life. Brian

My dad was disappointed that he could not join the IEEE because of
lack of qualifications - he was on a number of (and chairing some) BSI
committees at the time!


why would he want to join an American institution?


I was a member of the IEEE once, they have pretty mags and it was free.

I did look at joining the IEE but I felt insulted that they wanted me to
answer two questions on their exam papers when they usually wanted more.

So they were saying I knew more than their usual applicants but not
enough.

Nothing to do with what you knew - just what your existing qualifications
exempted you from/


There wasn't any real advantage of joining anyway.

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from KT24 in Surrey, England
"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle